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Threat actors exploited Windows 0-day for more than a year before Microsoft fixed it
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2024
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But don't you understand how confusing and scary those cryptic three letter strings are to normal people?? ๐ฑ
Administrator Plopp, what do I do if it has a 4 letter extension? That .jpeg is a virus right?
-sincerely, The dumbest user you know
Oh shit. Yes. I need you to press Ctrl+Alt+Del while pulling the power cord or else the virus will steal your RAM and upload your printer to a criminal server in the cloud!
It's not the 90's anymore. There's no excuse for not having basic understanding of the tools you use in life.
Where have you been for the past decade? The trend is the exact opposite. Dumb everything down until there's nothing left to understand, in the name of "usability".